Female death row inmate sues Japan government over 24/7 surveillance
Female death row inmate sues Japan government over 24/7 surveillance
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- Female death row inmate sues Japan government over 24/7 surveillance
- For close to a quarter of a century, death row inmate Hiroko Kazama’s every movement in her 3½ tatami-size cell at the Tokyo Detention House has been watched
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Original report Female death row inmate sues Japan government over 24/7 surveillance
Publisher: The Japan Times · Published May 20, 2:34 am · japantimes.co.jp
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A death-row inmate says she
For close to a quarter of a century, death row inmate Hiroko Kazama’s every movement in her 3½ tatami-size cell at the Tokyo Detention House has been watched
When she wakes up, uses the bathroom or creates a piece of art, she does so surveilled by guards who observe her through a ceiling-mounted camera
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- Female death row inmate sues Japan government over 24/7 surveillance
- For close to a quarter of a century, death row inmate Hiroko Kazama’s every movement in her 3½ tatami-size cell at the Tokyo Detention House has been watched
- When she wakes up, uses the bathroom or creates a piece of art, she does so surveilled by guards who observe her through a ceiling-mounted camera
- “Prisoners are never told how or when they are being monitored, which creates a profound sense of fear and uncertainty,” Kazama, 68, said in a statement to The Japan Times
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